Memory in a Metal (IMAGE)

The University of Hong Kong

Memory in a Metal

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Information is stored by changing the relative position of the metal layer (the gold ball in the figure) with the thickness of three atomic layers. The vortex and its color reveal the dynamic change of Berry curvature in band structure while layers' gliding; the numbers 1 and 0 encoded in this stacking orders can be read by such quantum property

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Ella Maru Studios

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